Troubled Province

May 12, 1985

LIMA, PERU — Pasco province has been placed under a state of emergency and civil rights have been suspended. Why: The killings of a mayor, a journalist and a labor activist by members of the Shining Path guerrilla group. Six of Peru's 24 states that contain more than 1 million people are under such controls. Public meetings are not permitted, and police can raid homes and arrest people without warrants.